Title The Civil War / a production of Florentine Films and WETA-TV ; a film by Ken Burns ; produced by Ken Burns and Ric Burns ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns and Ken Burns ; directed by Ken Burns.

Publication Info.	[United States] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. : distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, [2011]
	©2011

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Bloomfield at the Atrium	DVD 973.7 CIV DISC 1-6	Check Shelf
Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction	DVD973.73 BURNS DISC 1	Check Shelf
Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction	DVD973.73 BURNS DISC 2	Check Shelf
Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction	DVD973.73 BURNS DISC 3	Check Shelf
Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction	DVD973.73 BURNS DISC 4	Check Shelf
Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction	DVD973.73 BURNS DISC 5	Check Shelf
Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction	DVD973.73 BURNS DISC 6	Check Shelf
Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials	DVD 973.73 BUR DISC 1	Check Shelf
Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials	DVD 973.73 BUR DISC 2	Check Shelf
Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials	DVD 973.73 BUR DISC 3	Check Shelf

Description	6 videodiscs (660 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm)
System Details	DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen presentation; 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereo.
Note	Title from container.
Cast	George Plimpton, Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman, Sam Waterston; Narration: David McCullough.
Note	Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 1990.
Audience	Rating: Not rated.
Summary	Ken Burns' Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
Contents	Disc 1: Cause (episode 1) 1861 -- disc 2: Very bloody affair (episode 2) ; Forever free (episode 3) 1862 -- disc 3: Simply murder (episode 4); Universe of battle (episode 5) 1863 -- disc 4: Valley of the shadow of death (episode 6) ; Most hallowed ground (episode 7) 1864 -- disc 5: War is all hell (episode 8) ; Better angels of our nature (episode 9) 1865 -- disc 6: Bonus disc.
Note	Special features: Bonus disc: From the archive: Shelby Foote interviews; interview with Ken Burns; additional interviews: George Will, Stanley Crouch, Shelby Foote, and Jay Ungar & Molly Mason; commentary with Ken Burns; biography cards; battlefield maps; Civil War challenge.
Credits	Director, Ken Burns.
Language	Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Note	GMD: videorecording.
Subject	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
	Confederate States of America -- History, Military.
	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Genre/Form	Documentary television programs.
	Closed caption video recordings.
	Historical television programs.
	Documentary television programs.
	Television mini-series.
	Nonfiction television programs.
	Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author	Burns, Ken, 1953-
	Ward, Geoffrey C.
	Burns, Ric.
	McCullough, David G.
	Plimpton, George.
	Freeman, Morgan.
	Robards, Jason.
	PBS Home Video.
ISBN	9781608834020
	1608834026
	1415757836
	9781415757833
Standard No.	841887014052
	097368491342
Music No.	CIVW6400 PBS Home Video
	84913 PBS Home Video

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